This work is the outgrowth of a series of lectures given by the author to his students in Civil Engineering in the Tokyo Imperial university. It aims to save time and labor by furnishing solutions of those problems most commonly met with in the practice of a bridge engineer, and contains chapters upon: Trussed beams; Viaduct bents; Continuous girders; Arches with two hinges; Arches without hinges; Suspension bridges; and, Secondary stresses due to rigidity of joints.
[*] “This book forms an important contribution to the literature of bridge engineering. It is the first attempt to present in the English language in a single volume the principal cases of statically indeterminate stresses occurring in the practice of the bridge engineer, the solution of which is based exclusively on the method of least work. The book deserves a place in the library of every bridge engineer.” Henry S. Jacobi.
| + + + | Engin. N. 54: 530. N. 16, ‘05. 1730w. |
Hirst, Francis Wrigley. Adam Smith, [**]75c. Macmillan.
Mr. Hirst first treats of Adam Smith, the man, the absent-minded, but keenly observant, Scotchman, and then takes up Adam Smith, the philosopher, and examines his lectures, his “Theory of moral sentiments,” and his “Wealth of nations.”
“Indeed it is a distinct service of this little book, which will doubtless be more generally read than any other life of Smith, that no reader can leave it with the false impression of Smith as a closet philosopher interested only in questions of ethical or economic theory.”
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 11: 195. O. ‘05. 320w. |
“Excellent monograph. A lucid and attractively-written exposition of Smith’s economic theories.”
| + + | Contemporary R. 87: 303. F. ‘05. 380w. |
“More complete and satisfactory than Roe’s exhaustive ‘Life,’ on account of new and important material discovered more recently.”